The Perks of Being a Wallflower

3.50
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    2012

    Synopsis

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

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    Cast

    • Logan LermanCharlie
    • Emma WatsonSam
    • Ezra MillerPatrick
    • Mae WhitmanMary Elizabeth
    • Kate WalshMother
    • Dylan McDermottFather
    • Melanie LynskeyAunt Helen
    • Nina DobrevCandace
    • Johnny SimmonsBrad
    • Joan CusackDr. Burton

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    • 91

      The Playlist

      Touching and brimming with the energy, enthusiasm and tides of teenage love and life, 'Perks' could very well be the next classic of the genre.
    • 80

      Boxoffice Magazine

      The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a sweet surprise, a funny, touching terrific and quite wonderful movie that gets it all right about the joys and heartbreaks of growing up circa 1991.
    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      That's the feeling Stephen Chbosky captures in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, his exquisite adaptation of his best-selling YA novel about a Pittsburgh high-school freshman who doesn't fit in and then all of a sudden does, for a spell.
    • 60

      Variety

      First-time writer-director Stephen Chbosky adapts his young-adult bestseller with far more passion than skill, which suits familiar scenes of adolescent awkwardness aptly enough.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A heartfelt but rather generic coming-of-age dramedy.
    • 50

      Time

      Watson makes a smooth matriculation from the England-made Harry Potter epics to this movie's thrifty, six-week Pittsburgh shoot.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      Chbosky plays this CW serial stuff for maximum earnestness, stressing the teenage tendency to assume that every new thing they're feeling is unprecedented in human history, keeping the tone just-moist-eyed throughout.
    • 40

      The Guardian

      The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a perfect fit for its target audience – the Harry Potter kids who are following Emma Watson through her baby steps towards the stronger stuff.

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